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Author: Maggie Murphy ,
Adrienne Button
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Volume: 58
Dimensions:
Width: 21.50cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 28.30cm
Weight: 0.581kg
ISBN: 9781538116975
ISBN 10: 1538116979
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 15 April 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
This book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on First-Year Experience (FYE) librarianship as it provides helpful tips, advice and strategies for building an FYE librarian's program from instruction to outreach services. Readers will develop a better understanding of the information seeking behaviors and needs of incoming first year students. -- Raymond Pun, Academic Librarian, Alder Graduate School of Education and Co-Editor of ACRL's The First-Year Experience Library Cookbook (2017)
Author Information
Adrienne Button, MS, MLIS is the Instruction Coordinator for the Kaufman Library at Georgia Gwinnett College. In her role as Instruction Coordinator, Adrienne developed the GGC Information Literacy Omnibus, a foundational document that aligns the ACRL Framework to the research process, with particular emphasis on designing learning experiences for first-year students. She has presented on this work at several national conferences and was most recently invited to speak at the 2017 ACRL Conference on how to adapt the Omnibus at the local level. Adrienne also teaches two credit-bearing courses, GGC 1000: The First-Year Seminar and GGC 2000: Introduction to Information in the 21st century. Her most recent publications include a chapter in The First-Year Experience Library Cookbook and a paper in the 2017 LOEX Conference Proceedings. Adrienne received her Master of Library and Information Science in 2005 from the University of South Florida and her Master of Science in First-Year Studies from Kennesaw State University in 2017. Maggie Murphy, MLIS is a First-Year Instruction & Humanities Librarian for the University of North Carolina at Greenboro’s University Libraries, where she teaches library instruction sessions for more than 1300 first-year students a semester in English composition, basic communication, and first-year seminar courses. Maggie has presented on first-year librarian instruction at Library Instruction West, the Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy, The Innovative Library Conference, and more, with upcoming presentations at ACRL 2019. Her recent publications include chapters in Motivating Students on a Time Budget: Pedagogical Frames and Lesson Plans for In-Person and Online Information Literacy Instruction and The Engaged Library: High-Impact Educational Practices & Academic Libraries (both forthcoming from ACRL Press). Maggie is also the author of over 30 children’s books on technology, natural science, and popular culture for juvenile nonfiction publisher PowerKids Press (an imprint of Rosen Publishing), under her own name and several pen names. She received her Master of Library and Information Science from Rutgers University in 2012.
